Health and well-being among 70-year-old migrants living in Sweden - Results from the H 70 gerontological and geriatric population studies in Göteborg

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 13-22

  Silveira, E ^a   Skoog, I ^a   Sundh, V ^a   Allebeck, P ^a   Steen, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Disability; Mental health; Migration; Older people; Social support

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTONIA; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GERIATRICS; GERMANY; GERONTOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION; INTERVIEW; ITALY; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIGRATION; MOOD; MORTALITY; PAIN; PHYSICAL DISEASE; POLAND; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOPATHY; SURVIVAL; SWEDEN; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VERTIGO; VISUAL DISORDER; WELLBEING; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 0036944774     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s127-002-8209-5     Document Type: Article

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